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Today's Date: March 24

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1858

The printing press of the St. Cloud Visiter is destroyed by a mob. The paper's editor, Jane Grey Swisshelm, a feminist and abolitionist, had angered local businessman and slave owner Sylvanus B. Lowry. Swisshelm obtained a new press and printed the story of her press's destruction and the names of the culprits, which resulted in a libel case and the termination of the paper. A week later she began publishing the St. Cloud Democrat, which she ran for eight years.
1999

The US Supreme Court upholds the rights of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe to fish and hunt in ceded lands without state regulation, as dictated by an 1837 treaty.
2002

The UMD Bulldogs Women's Ice Hockey team win their second consecutive national championship.